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On Jan 23, 2008 6:17 AM, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 7:35 AM,  <pavlovetsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> flash doesn't have anything to do with compliance. nor does javascript.
> speaking of the web, you should be compliant with what you choose to implement.
> if you only implement html and you're compliant with w3c, you are compliant.

and, arguably, useless.

There is spec compliance and de-facto compliance. Or, maybe, spec
compliance and
what people want compliance.

One of the first questions users ask of a new C compiler is "are you
gcc compliant?".

I'm not making this up.

ron